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[peony]

i had a moderate case a few days back, it lasted all day and i was in my socks in the office trying to stretch it out because i thought it was my heavy boots that made my calf cramp so bad

[JongnoGuru]

[mole]

I'm guessing the couch is not the culprit. What's that about lack of sleep and stress?? hmm..
Whose couch was it?

[formerflautist]

I got them all the time as a teen. Extremely painful but then I learned that I was able to stop the cramp. All you should have to do is pull your foot forward until the muscle spasm stops. Always works like a charm for me.

[JongnoGuru]

[Pink Freud]

Guru, sounds to me like you could have had a bout of sciatica. Do you spend a lot of time sitting down? Do you suffer from any lower back trouble?Was it a shooting, nervy kind of pain that went down the outside of your thigh, through the knee, and down your shin to your ankle? If so, it could have been caused by a pinched sciatic nerve in your lower back /hip area. Just a possibility...I suffered it about ten years ago, when I was doing a lot of long-distance driving, getting a bit overweight, and had been forced in inactivity because of serious groin injury received playing shinny.

[uberscheisse]

if it's one of those severe lactosis cramps where your whole leg siezes up, they can be killer painful. i used to get them in my late teens.

i was told by my musclehead trainer buddy that PICKLE WATER of all things has all the electrolytes you are missing when muscle cramps set in.

luckily, you're in korea. order a couple pizzas and next time you'll be set.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[mindmetoo]

Is that where your leg muscle, like maybe the gastronemius, goes from its normal elongated shape to the size of a small potato?

That happens to me from time to time, usually at night when I'm sleeping. All I know is you begin to learn to sense the precursor tightening and learn to relax/massage the muscle before it balls up painfully.

[cdninkorea]

Yeah, been there. Once in a while I'll wake up gritting my teeth in pain while one of my calf muscles involuntarily flex harder than I ever could voluntarily. Then I'll have trouble walking for a few days because it'll be sore.

PS I think the girl MMToo has as his avatar right now is hot.

[tweeterdj]

yeah i've been getting those since i was 10. you do start to recognize the feeling, even when i'm just waking up i can feel it coming. what you do (if you can) is immediatly pull on your big toe. this pulls the muscle downwards stretching it out and usually (for me anyway) kills it in less than 10 seconds. though sometimes i still have the debilitating pain for a day or so.

oh and i've read that getting some potassium into your diet can help stop these from happening. pregnant women can get them because pregnancy tends to deplete their potassium.

[The Lemon]

I'm with the OP - walking it off does not help. In fact, pretty much nothing helps. All you think of is pain. If someone gave you a chainsaw at that moment, you'd happily cut your leg off to stop the pain.

I get them in sleep rarely - like once in ten years - but a woman who sleeps in my bed got them frequently during pregnancy. There must be a blood vessel thing going on with the muscles.

[JongnoGuru]

[Big_Bird]

[JongnoGuru]